dancing on summer evenings
– concert followed by dancing to a live orchestra
July 4 & 6 @ 7.30pm in the Bockenheimer Depot
doors open 6.30 - to music
Oper Frankfurt rounds the season off in the coolest venue in town! - with the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchester under GMD Thomas Guggeis. We've even got jazz band and DJ, so come and have a ball!
The concert, first part of the evening, includes Morton Gould's Tap Dance Concerto, starring tap dancer David Friederich, works for orchestra, arias and hits from the 1920s & 30 by Ernst Fischer, Eduard Künneke and Paul Abraham, amongst others and ... Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Thomas Guggeis on piano.
Then the audience can take to the floor,and have fun. Those wanting more can carry on »dancing on a summer night« to music by Timcat.
It's all introduced by Hessen's 2022 Poetry Slam Master Aileen Schneider. Drinks and snacks are provided by the FRANKFURT NEUE KÜCHE.
Ernst Fischer South of the Alps (extracts)
Morton Gould Tap Dance Concerto
George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Eduard Künneke Dance Suite op. 46 (extracts)
then arias & duets by Kurt Weill, Paul Abraham, Richard Fall & others
Giuseppina Galloro's going to show you the steps for dances including the onestep, foxtrot and walzes, during the break.
And it's all rounded off by a party with Timcat!